Posted on 09/05/2025 3:02:00 PM PDT by nickcarraway
<I>She credited Carl Sagan with inspiring her beliefs. Alex Ocho
Emma Stone says she believes in aliens.
The Oscar-winning actress made the confession on Thursday (Aug. 28) when she and director Yorgos Lanthimos appeared at the press conference for their new film Bugonia during the 2025 Venice International Film Festival.
When asked by a reporter whether she believes in a “higher intelligence looking upon us,” Stone gave a surprising take on the matter.
“I don't know about looking down on us,” Stone said at the one-hour, 24-minute mark of the video linked here. “One of my favorite people that has ever lived is Carl Sagan, and I watched his show Cosmos and fell madly in love with his philosophy and his science and how brilliant he seems to be.”
She continued, “And I think he very deeply believed that the idea that we are alone in this vast expanse of the universe—truly, not that we're being watched— but that we're alone out here is a pretty narcissistic thing to think.
“So yes, I'm coming out with it. I believe in aliens. Thank you,” she concluded, bringing audible laughter in the press conference.
Earlier in the conference, another reporter asked Stone how she manages fame “without turning into an alien.”
“How do you know I’m not an alien?” she playfully asked before reflecting more seriously on the challenges of public perception.
“There’s me, and then there’s like me here, if that makes sense,” she said. “I separate the two in my mind a little bit. … It's just different things to keep myself sane, I guess.”
Bugonia will hit theaters on Oct. 24.
He was a lot of fun; and very talented and knowledgeable in many areas. I wavered between thinking he was serious about the moon, and just having everybody on.
>> what is the probability that everything evolved from nothing
>>Zero.
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But-but-but... what if a billion-trillion-quadrillion giga-zillion-bazillion years went by? Then couldn’t we totally ignore logic????????
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